These latter, on thus perceiving the spirits of Saturn, became as if insane, and began to infest them, infusing unworthy ideas concerning faith, and also concerning the Lord.
It was also once permitted the evil spirits of our Earth to act by their wicked arts, and to infest the spirits of Jupiter who were with me.
I was thinking of the fact that the evil spirits of our Earth are not affected with shame when they infest others.
The animal when taken from the tree on which it feeds, though supplied with its leaves, loses this faculty, with which it is probably endowed to drive off the ichneumons that infest it[364].
And the crowds of lazy beggars that infest the streets of Naples and Rome, as well as the brigands of Pompeii, use a secret language termed Gergo.
Garrotte~, a system of robbery with violence much practised on dark winter nights by ruffians who during summer infest racecourses and fairs.
I have been afraid the beasts of prey which infest this region would get possession of his corpse; so, with my children, I build every night a fire near his grave.
When seed is not properly buried, the moth will also lay its eggs in the "eyes," and so directly infest the tuber; this danger applies also to potatoes in store or in bags.
This insect is sometimes very common during spring upon the shoots and leaves of plum in New Zealand; in other countries it has been found to migrate to and infest the flowers and leaves of water lilies.
Plenty revels over the fields, but they are starving in the midst of its abundance; the whole wilderness has blossomed into a garden, but they feel as reptiles that infest it.
The current opinion of the Indian character, however, is too apt to be formed from the miserable hordes which infest the frontiers and hang on the skirts of the settlements.
I never observed the yak to be annoyed by any insects; indeed at the elevation it inhabits, there are no large diptera, bots, or gadflies to infest it.
Two days' journey from here there is a military post, placed like an advanced sentry to watch the frontier, and prevent the incursions of the Indios bravos, and other bandits of every description and colour, who infest these regions.
Chastising all robbers that infest the outskirts, the king should protect the people of his villages and make them happy.
Robbers infest that kingdom in which confusion prevails, and all good men regard the ruler to be a Mlechcha.
We have already seen instances of this in the pile of stones which marks the place where a tiger has killed a man, and in the cairns in honour of the jungle deities, or the spirits which infest dangerous passes.
A very dangerous ghost which some time ago used to infest a road in the Rurki Cantonment was routed in the same way by an artilleryman, who spat on him when he came across him one dark night.
M202 Propitiation of the vermin which infestcrops and cattle in Europe.
The Wagogo, another tribe of German East Africa, catch one of the birds which infest their gardens, and, having drenched it with a charmed stuff, they release the bird in the hope that it may entice all its companions away into the forest.
These are the vermin that infest his crops and his cattle.
An Oriental counterpart of the Mouse Apollo is the ancient pillar or rude idol which the Chams of Indo-China call yang-tikuh or "god rat," and to which they offer sacrifices whenever rats infest their fields in excessive numbers.
Condemned to be shot, the sentence was confirmed and duly carried out--not with the idea of vengeance, but as a deterrent to other cosmopolitan rogues who infest the shores of the Levant.
He took to his heels, doubtless imagining that he was about to be attacked by some of the numerous robbers who, under the guise of beggars, infest the countryside.
There is always a strong military detachment here for the security of the road against robbers, who occasionally infest this neighbourhood.
XLIV The mighty Mahmud, the victorious Lord, That all the misbelieving and black Horde Of Fears and Sorrows that infest the Soul Scatters and slays with his enchanted Sword.
They infest them from May to November, for very little gain apparently.
People give him their halfpence more readily than to any other musicians who infest the boat.
What is more dreadful is that they infest Rome to a like extent,” exclaimed Lucius Cassius.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "infest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: beset; blight; frequent; infest; invade; overrun; overspread; plague; ravage; riddle; swarm
